Murdoch skeptical of climate change

7/14/14 11:04 AM EDT

Rupert Murdoch doesn't think much of climate change.

“We should approach climate change with great skepticism," the News Corp. CEO told Sky News Australia in an interview over the weekend. "Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here. And there will always be a little bit of it. At the moment the North Pole is melting, but the South Pole is getting bigger."

Murdoch said the most alarmist scenario would be a 3-degree-Celsius rise in temperature over 100 years, and "at the very most one of those [degrees] would be man-made.”

"If the sea level rises six inches, that's a big deal in the world; the Maldives might disappear or something, but OK, we can't mitigate that, we can't stop it, we just got to stop building vast houses on seashores," he said. "The world has been changing for thousands and thousands of years, and it's just a lot more complicated today because we're so much more advanced."